SUMMER RECAP
Bible Study Methods Coach: Daniel was in Colorado for 3 weeks this June teaching a section of CCC’s Bible Study Methods Course to a group of 15 new Campus Crusade missionaries from UCSB, UCLA, UC Davis and other schools. He loved the opportunity to use his master’s degree! The students learned how to write their own curriculum by studying Ephesians 2 in depth. He enjoyed daily appointments with 2-3 of his students over lunch where they discussed what it means to fully follow Christ (class photo - center above)
Colorado State New Staff Commissioning: Daniel LOVED getting the opportunity to preach and facilitate a commissioning service for over 200+ new CCC missionaries --- using Mathew 28:18- 20 as his text (praying with his class of students above). God spoke through him with power that morning, ...what a privilege (see pic above)
“ ...teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” - Jesus to The Twelve + The Women (Matthew 28:16-20)
Trusting God for a CCC Staff Team at San Jose State: God called Daniel for the past 2 years to a difficult assignment, …to serve as an intercessor, coach, and advocate for the 100% student-led movement at San Jose State University. It’s been growing by leaps and bounds. He had a call from God to work and pray for the right CCC staff to come to SJSU for “such a time as this”. The movement had grown so large it could easily get unwieldy for future student leaders. It’s been over 15 years since CCC staff have been at SJSU. God so faithfully answered. This Fall there is a team of 5 staff at SJSU!! (see picture at top left above)
A New Position for Daniel this Fall, …GradCru at UC Berkeley: Daniel has the opportunity to pioneer a new mission at UC Berkeley. He’s trusting God to see spiritual movements happen amidst the 10,000 grad students at Cal. They range from 2-year MBA students to 5 or 6-year astrophysics PhD students. He’s met a handful of grad students already who have a fire in their hearts. He is asking God to help him find and introduce as many Christian grad students to one another as possible. He’s starting by planting Groups of Three (G3’s). The first week, 1 G3 was started with a Nuclear Engineer, a Real Estate PhD and Transportation Engineer. The second week another G3 was started with a Sociology PhD, an Ethnic Studies PhD and an Anthropology of Religion masters student. Two more G3’s look to begin, too. He’s so encouraged by God’s faithfulness and graciousness to him as he starts this new work. It will be hard and take a lot of work.
“Not striving to have faith, or to increase my faith but a looking at the Faithful One seems all we need. A resting in the Loved One entirely, for time, for eternity.” -John McCarthy in a letter to Hudson Taylor, 1869.
Bay Area New Staff Field-Training: Daniel continues to serve as the Bay Area Field-Training Coordinator. He’ll be hosting a monthly Training Day for all our new CCC staff (UC Davis, CAL, SJSU and SFSU). Our first training day was last week at Cal and we’re off to a good start…
Looking ahead: Daniel will be heading down to Southern California for his 30th high school reunion on Oct 10th. He hopes to re-friend and minister to many of his classmates & connect with many of you who reside down there. He’s also been asked to be the fall retreat speaker for the University of Washington and will be in the Seattle Area Oct. 27-Nov 2nd. He plans to see as many Seattle friends as possible, too (feel free to contact him)
Next Month: Focus on Margee’s Ministries!
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray for vision & perseverance for Daniel as he starts up GradCru from scratch. CCC does not currently have a national strategy for reaching & discipling graduate students.
2. Pray for God’s grace for Daniel meet 1 new grad student a day; FTF, online, facebook, etc., and for Groups of Three (G3’s) to grow exponentially!!!
Jesus’ Peace to you, Daniel (& Margee)
Daniel & Margee Curran <> 106 Appalachian Drive, Martinez, CA 94553
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